"Education, Diversity, Social Cohesion and Social Capital" (3/18/04 talk to OECD Education Ministers: Raising the Quality of Education for All, Dublin).

"Better Together: Restoring the American Community" (with Lew Feldstein, Simon & Schuster, September 2003). Contains roughly a dozen chapters each describing promising new forms of social connectedness in diverse communities across America and what can be learned from across these examples.

Other Sources

Information about social capital and the Social Capital Community Benchmark Survey:

Our own Saguaro Seminar site
Provides overview of Professor Putnam’s work to date, as well as the historical Saguaro Seminar meetings, and has links to various other social capital research and publications (Bowling Alone, Better Together, Social Capital Community Benchmark Survey [SCCBS]).

www.bowlingalone.com
Through vast new data, Putnam’s book shows how we have become increasingly disconnected from family, friends, neighbors, and our democratic structures and how we may reconnect.

www.bettertogether.org
Better Together is the Saguaro Seminar
report based on three years of dialogue
among a diverse group of thinkers and
doers. This report details promising
strategies and recommendations for
increasing our social capital through
faith-based efforts, schools and youth,
the workplace, politics, and the arts.

Social Capital Gateway
The Social Capital Gateway is a fine site on social capital worldwide, including recent books, theses, social capital events and conferences, and basic readings on social capital.